Improvement in pocket-books



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Pocket-Books.

NO} 5 955 Patentedjap.19,1875.-..

W'tn'esses: Inventor:

UNITED STATES ATEN FIG.

CHARLES LIEB, or new YORK, n. Y.

IMPROVEMSENT IN POCKET-BOOKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1158;955, dated January19, 1875; applicationfiled J nne 24, 1874.

produce a strong, durable pocketbook. The construction of my clasp isfully here inafter described, and pointed out in the claim. In thedrawing, the letter A designates a pocket-book, of which B are the sideflaps,

and O the partitions, connected together by metal clasps a. One of theseclasps I have shown on a slightly-enlarged scale in Fig. 3.

- The clasps are of a peculiar construction, being of a strip or back,1), formed with a point, e, and with two side checks, 0 c, which arearranged as next described.

In carrying out my invention, I fold the flaps B at the proper places,and pass the point of a clasp through each outer fold, at

such adistance from the top that when theback I) is bent over the topedge of the flaps the side cheeks c 0 are brought on the inside thereof,as shown. The point e is preferably bent at right angles to the back I),so that when applied or passed through the folds it can be bent, asshown in Fig. 3, then clinched, and the back bis bent over the back ortop edge of the flaps, as last above stated, so that the partitions Gare embraced by the side cheeks, and the latter being also clinched orcompressed, the side flaps and partitions are united or connected toeach other. The immediate connection between the side flaps andpartitions is through the back I), which is on the top edge thereof, byreason of which the pocket-book can be opened or spread to its utmostcapacity withoutimpediment, and without danger of tearing.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to confine together the flaps ofpocket-books by means of metallic clasps, and such of itself I do notclaim; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The metallic clasp herein described for connecting together the flaps ofpocket-books, the same consisting of the strip or back 1), formed withthe point e and checks 0 c, at right angles to said back, .and the wholeadapted to be clinched into position for connecting the flaps ofpocket-books, in the manner herein shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

- CHARLES LIEB.

Witnesses:

E. F. KAsTHNHUBER, GHAs. WAHLERS.

